CVE-2012-2091
Multiple buffer overflows in FlightGear 2.6 and earlier and SimGear 2.6 and earlier allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a (1) long string in a rotor tag of an aircraft xml model to the Rotor::getValueforFGSet function in src/FDM/YASim/Rotor.cpp or (2) a crafted UDP packet to the SGSocketUDP::read function in simgear/simgear/simgear/io/sg_socket_udp.cxx.
- EPSS
- 6.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- flightgear:flightgear
- simgear:simgear
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/081997.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082002.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-June/082017.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48780
- http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=28957051